Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1890 — Page 3

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HATE LATHI OCCURRED. An In ter**! lag Summary of thn Morn Important liolns* of Our Neiglilmn^WmJ■iinji aotl Urothn—Crime, Canaaltim ud General New* Notes. —Josiah Wade was run oyer and killed by a train, near Jeffersonville. He had just been granted a pension, with SI,OOO back pay. —William Woods, of ltaysville, an employe at the paper-mill in Knights■town, fell into a boiling lye vat while at work and was horribly scalded. —The drillers struck a fine How of artesian mineral water at C. Fletcher’s residence at Spencer. The water pours out, by actual measurement, one hundred and eighty barrels per hour. —The spring trotting meeting which was to have been held in Fort NVayne in Jane has been declared off, as satisfactory arrangements could not be made with the other cities of the proposed circuit. —A little daughter of Mrs Henry H. Snyder was frightfully burned about the head and shoulders by the burning of an apron which she had wrapped around her neck while playing near a bonfire. —State Fish Commissioner Dennis will institute proceedings in the Dubois County courts against persons who have been violating the fish law's by seining in Patoka and other rivers of that county. —"While using some alcohol near a lighted lump Mrs. George La Comty, living near Syracuse,Kosicusko County, was seriously burned by the fluid igniting and setting tire to her clothing. It is thought she cannot recover. —John Dillman, a young man aged 17, residing in Mitchelltree Township, Martin County* accidentally shot himself with a rifle, the ball striking the muscles of the side and lodging in the shoulder. The wound is very severe and probably fatal. —Ashbury Torrence, a colored man, has sued Frederick and Alice Carson, of Washington, for malicious prosecution, asking for $2,000. The defendants caused the plaintiff’s arrest last winter, charging him with having assaulted Mrs. Carson, but he was acquitted. - William Bryan, 10 years old, son of M. L. Bryan, a grocer of Portland, while attempting to jump on a moving train on the G. It. &I. Railroad, lost his balance and was thrown under the cars. One of his legs was horribly mashed and his life is despaired of. —Will Reed, employed in the sawmill of his brother, C. E. Reed, at Swayzee, was instantly killed. A ragged sleeve caused him to be caught in the machinery. His right arm was jerked off, both legs were broken in two places, and be was mangled beyotid recognition. Deceased was 23 years old and unmarried. —Mr. and Mrs. N. F. ~Sykes, who reside near the government weather station at Weed Patch Hill, in Brown County, have a 4-yenr-old midget. The little boy is eighteen inches in height and weighs but twenty pounds. He has never known what it is to be sick any length of time. The father and mother are rather portly and of the average height. —A large oak saw-log hauled in to Mnley’s saw-mill, at Columbus, from the woods, which was cracked and somewhat windshaken in the heart, while being quartered up, fell apart, and blacksnakes began running in every direction. Twenty-seven of the reptiles of all Bizes were killed, besides several that got away, the largest of which measured six. feet seven inches in length. —The suit of Joel Brown, for slCf,ooo, against the T., St. L. & K. C. Railway, was decided in favor of the railroad in the Montgomery County court. This is the second trial. Brown claimed that he was riding in a freight car, and that the brakeman reached over the top of the car and shot through the side of the car, hitting him in the eyes, thus destroying the sight. The portion of the car was in court, and showed that the range of the bullet was upwards, and not downwards. —The Welker Colored Plate Glass Company, of Findlay, 0., has closed a contract with Rekley citizens to establish a giass plant there within ninety days, giving employment to fifty men. The bonus given them is five acres of land, free gas and $6,000 in cash, the company binding themselves to employ 100 men in one year from the first fire, and to keep the plant in operation at least five years. The money has been raised and the land secured, and the enterprise is an assured fact. —A slow fuse cansed an explosion and the death of one man, and the serious injury of two others at the stone quarry at Gheen’s cement-mill, seven miles from Jeffersonville. Thomas James, foreman, and’Samuel T. Chappel and R. C. Livingston,' workmen, had prepared a blast, and after igniting the fuse, retired at a safe distance to await thse explosion, which did not occur as toon as they expected. They returned to examine the fuse, and the explosion occurred while the men were making the examination,'instantly killing JainCsj and wounding the other two/’ •

' ' —'W. A. Parker, a farmer residing near Azalia, Bartholomew County, while in Columbus, stepped oft a side-track to avoid a freight train. He stood near the cerealine-mill, where he was Btruck by a switching engine and pressed against a will with such force as to cause death. —The gas well being drilled on the farm of Benj. Foust, south of Knightstown bas developed into a great salt producer. At a depth of 800 feet a volume ot water burst forth from the well, and j has since been flowing at a height of ' fifty feet, bringing out with it an abunI dant supply of pare salt. The contractor of the well said that it was producing one hundred barrels of salt a day. Major Doxey was informed, and will at once make arrangements to utilize the valuable production of the well. Immense crowds viewed the novel sight. —William A. Parker, aged 74 years, a millwright by occupation, who resided at Azalia, in Bartholomew County, was standing on a switch used by the J., M. &I. Railroad Company, entering between two brick walls to the large cerealine mills, when suddenly a switch engine, pushing a large freight-car, dashed in upon, and caught him between the box-car and the brick wall, in a space of but ten inches, and in a standing position, rolled him a distance of thirty feet, crushing the bones of his chest, and causing his death in thirty minutes. —The other day at Muncie, Melvin H. Tyler took out a license to wed Miss Emma Heffner. Tyler, whe is a prominent manufacturer, came to Muncie two years ago and wedded the same lady, with whom he lived nearly a year, when a former wife from Portland, Me., whom lie had deserted, had him arrested, codvicted and sentenced for bigamy, Tylers popularity and failing health secured a pardon for him from jail, where he was serving the lowest possible sentence. During the trial wife No. 1 agreed to tet a divorce and free him if SSOO alimony be allowed her and her child, which was done, and Tyler has relieved the papers that made him free to wed Miss Heffner, which he will do. —Pension Agent Ensley has made out and forwarded to William Boliley, of Linton, Green County, a voucher of $13,636.80, the largest amount of pension money ever paid to any one man in the State of Indiana. Bohley was a private in Company F, Thirty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Gen. Crust’s regiment, and is now blind from a disease of the eyes contracted while in the army. He is a German, about fifty-two years old, and owns a little farm near Linton, which place is largely made up of Germans. Until Bobley’s claim of $13,637.80 was ordered paid, the largest pension granted in this State was that of Owen Flaherty, of Terre Haute, who, on Feb. 20 last, was given $13,079.07. Flaherty is insane from wounds received in the service. —The L., N. A. & C. had a disastrous freight wreck at the iron bridge, across Sugar Creek, two miles north of Crawfordsville. As the south-bound freight was crossing the creek it was discovered that a car was off the track. It was ascertained that the second trucks of the eighth car had broken down a quarter of a mile before the bridge was reached. This car was loaded with hides. This let the trucks down upon the rails, and this and the speed of the train carried the car across the bridge, the derailed car pushing all the ties .on the bridge to the south end, making a solid floor of them. Alter this derailed car followed ten other cars, which piled upon each other until the wreckage stopped the balance of the train. These cars were thrown upon the iron work of the bridge and greatly damaged. —Two years ago a fine-looking young fellow, named Charles Shephard, came to Elkhart from Michigan, won the as- , sections of Miss Lulu Horton, daughter of Dr. John Horton, and later married her under duress. As soon as the marriage ceremony was over Shephard disappeared, and, though his wife did all in her power to discover his whereabouts, she did not succeed, and at last secured a divorce on the ground of desertion. The other day, however,Shephard voluntarily,apparently consciencestricken, put in an appearance, pnanevr the affection of his disheartened ’Wife, secured a license, was remarried by Judge Henderson, and the happy couple went to Grand Rapids, where he has a good position. Shepard’s family is wealthy and influential, and, it is understood, had something to do with his return to the girl he had deserted. —A bold attempt at jail delivery was discovered at Fort Wayne by Sheriff Vieberg. The principals in the scheme were Elmer W. the swindler who was recently arrested at Indianapolis for defrauding Labor Unions, and Charles McCarty, his pal, who claims Lima, 0., ns his home. Mitchell was placed in jail to await trial on numerous charges of swindling. Last week McCarty called at the jail and asked permission to see Mitchell, representing himself as a lawyer from Lima. His request was graned, but after his departure it was found that he had passed into Mitchell’s cell a bottle containing nitric acid and some steel tools. The other day McCarty called again, this time leaving a steel knite. He was placed under arrest, and iB now in jail in default of bail. He is undoubtedly an accomplice of Mitchell in bis swindling operations. ■ *** *- ‘ *

SAMUEL GOMPEES TALKS

HIS VIEWS ON THE KIGHT-HOUS QUESTION. A Concerted Movement In AU Depart* me its of Labor to Bring About a Shortei Day—Other Trades Will Follow the Carpenters in Demanding a Shortening o the Hours of Work. Chicago dispatch: “The eight houi day is the sole idea now being consider ed by the labor world,” said Samue Gompers, president of the America! Federation of Labor the other day. ‘ln the history of social and economic movements of the world there hat not been one which received at onct and complete the same sympathy and

SAMUEL GOMPERS.

“Tho labor organizations of this ;ountry are devoted solely to this one Idea. Wo think we*can do one thing al a time better than a multiplicity ol things. To tho end of obtaining the eight-hour work day wo are concentrating all our energies, all our ability, and all our intelligence. “We want the eight-hour day foi " several reasons. We want it because it will improve tho condition of those employed and afford employment to thousands now idle, and because it will give us time to think. Whilo we are accomplishing this wo can consider what /Improvement it will bo best to nexi effect. Wo are doing it with the least "possible injurious results to business oi commerce. We do not want to stop the wheels of industry. We want to hell them work more smoothly. We want tc removo instead of increase friction. “So we proceed by degrees. We have singlod out the eight-hour day as the first thing to be attained. Then wo have selected only one trade for which at first this improvement must bo secured. We have chosen the carpenters as tho first craft for which to win this benefit. When the carpenters shall have won wo shall demand it for the miners and minelaborers. Then other trades will be taken up and pushed forward. In this way the entire change of tho industrial system to the olglit-hour day shall have been accomplished with tho least effect on the country’s business. “There is no doubt of the success oi the movement, In the American* Federation of Labor, to which by common consent the eight-hour movement is granted, there are *530,000 members. In the movement besides these there are more than enough to bring the force to 1,000.000 men. “The movement for tho eight-hour day is on a different basis now from its status in 1886. Then wo had an army of enthusiastic raw recruits. New we have a force of cool, trained veterans. The movement of 1886 was chaotic, disintegrated. unsystematic. To-day it is methodical, organized, prepared. “We have made great advances since 1886. The best of these is that we have educated the educated. Intelligent men no longer believe that tho adoption ol the eight-hour day means social and economic unskilled laborer has not been forgotten. Every reduction of the hours of labor, every advance of wages secured by the skilled laborer redounds to the benefit of the unskilled class just as much as that oi those for whom these advantages are ostensibly obtained. “We will secure the eight-hour day for the workmen of the world—not if it takes all summer —but if it takes the rest of our lives.”

HALSTEAD’S NEW POST.

Tli* Famous Cincinnati Editor to Take Charge of a Brooklyn Paper, New York dispatch: The Brooklyn has announced that Murat Halstead has assumed editorial management of that paper. Mr. Halstead was seen by a reporter with reference to the announcement. This step, he said, did not indicate a severance of his connection with the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. “My new duties,” ho continued, “will not Interfere with my work of editorial correspondence on the Commercial-Gazette. That will go on the same as for some time past. Tho facilities afforded by my editorial connection here will be a help to my correspondence. Mr. Richard Smith will be the responsible edit-or-in-chief of the Commercial-Gazette, and I shall be responsible for only such jditorial utterances as appear over my initials. Mr. Smith and I are working in entire agreement. There will be however, less one-man power on the Commercial Gazette than heretofore, The board of directors will take a more active share in tho management of tho paper. The new policy was de termined upon, at the meeting of, the stockholders last Monday. My oldest son, Marshal Halstead, and A. Hinkle, an energetic young business man of Cincinnati, were elected the now members of the board.

SHOULD NOT HAVE FLIRTED.

Fatal End of an Amatory Excursion Undertaken by John Griffien. New York dispatch: John H. Griffen, a tailor. 25 years of age, who lives on the top floor of the tenement at 104 Bayard street, was sitting on the roof when he began a flirtation with some young women on the roof of 03 Mott street.' They beckoned him over and he went up the stairs of 61 Mott street, but finding that the women were on the adjoining roof, he tried to climb across a picket fence which runs aion tho top of the shaft between the houses. Some one warned him to be careful, but he answered that he was allright. Suddenly the railing broke when ho was halfway across and he fell into the shaft, a distance of six stories. He was instantly killed.

support that has boot accorded to the eighthour movement. It has covered Europe, aud on May t the working population of that continent will demand the eight hour day.

HOW HORN COMBS ARE MADE.

BY EMMA VILO.

*) Jw OMBH are made from horns gathered in Australia and South Ameriand from • buffalo ' /:ff » j IjAhorn brought from vari- ' |ju4 * quarters. Each ErV 1 IUrO mar ket supplies a horn of a distinct character, the characteristic 9 * 8 c^°9e V v maintained in the production of the i / oombs. The processes & dopted in manipulative ing the horn are. how-

ever, one and the same for all kiods. The first operation is to cut the horn in several different ways, so that when it is opened it shall be of rectangular shape. This cutting involves the loss of several large pieces, and also of the tios so far as comb-mnking is concerned; but the pieces are sold to manufacturers of other commodities, so that the total loss is comparatively slight. To assist the action of the knife, the horn is heated to a certain degree over the lire, by the side of which the operator sits. When cut, the horn is often softened and opened by tongs and placed between screw plates, wherein, under the influence of a strong pressure, the pieces are flattened out. It is a characteristic of the horn to remain when cold just as it is shaped when warm; so that, when the pieces are removed from the screw plate, they do not warp or curl up again. Such piecei as are intended to be used for imitation tortoise shell are subjected to an enormous pressure between heated and oiled iron plates. This heavy pressure, however, weakens the horn and renders it liable to split. Omitting the drying stage, the noxt process is to cut the pieces into suitable sizes and shapes for combs, and the teeth are cut. Originally this was done by hand. Now it is done by circular saws, some of which are so fine and thin as to cut from seventy to eighty teeth per lineal inch. They revolve at a very rapid rate; but, instead of traveling up to the horn, the horn travels up to the saw. After each cut the horn is automatically moved forward tho exact breadth of a tooth, and it is possible to arrange that a fine or a coarse tooth shall be cut at pleasure. This in itself is sufficient to stamp the machine as a most ingenious piece of work. After the tooth cutting, the combs are next thinned or tapered down to their outer edges. This is done on ?rindstones, and in due succession the eeth are rounded, pointed, or beveled, as the case may require, by a special kind of tile, or rasp. If from this stage it is necessary to treat the horn, to make it an imitation of tortoise shell, the object is effected by first applying a dilute nitric acid, which imparts a light-yellowish tinge, and afterward by dropping over certain spots a composition containing caustic soda, litharge, and dragon’s blood. After some time the blood is washed off, but the spots beneath it are found to be slightly swollen up, and stained to a deep orange tinge. It then only remains to polish the combs, whether they are in plain horn or in imitation of tortoise shell. This is dor.o by first sandpapering, to get a smooth surface, then buffing on leather wheels, aDd finally polishing on wheels made up of circular pieces of calico, with frayed edges, which, though so soft in themselves, present a hard face when being rapidly revolved.

A Fair Railroad President.

Mrs. Haines is the first woman ever chosen to the Presidency of a steam railroad, but in her case there can be

no doubt of the wisdom of the selection, her qualifications for the position -'being conceded by all who know her. She is the wife of Mr. C. D. Haines, senior member of the well-known Haines Brothers, brokers and owners of the street and short-line railroads in several States. They own a number of railroads, steam and street, in the Lone Star State, the Medina Valley being one. Mrs. Haines, the fair President of this line, is said to be a most efficient officer as well as a most beautiful woman.

What the Matter Has.

“What is the matter with that baby?” growled an irascible husband as the little one persisted in howling and kicking to the extent of its little might. “The matter is, sir,” calmly replied the wife, as she strode up and down the floor, “the matter is that this baby inherits your temper.” And the husband returned to bis paper with a gloomier look than before.

SILVER LEGISLATION.

AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN HOUSK AND SENATE CONFEhRKES. Provision* of the Measure that I* Likely lo Pau Without Further Amendment— Poor and a Half Million Ounce* of the Precious Metal to Be Furch Mil Monthly aid Certificate* Issued Therefor. Washington dispatch: The conference committees of the Houso and Senate on tho silver question liavo como to au agreement. Tho Sooretary of the Treasury is to be empowered to buy 4,500,0*10 ounces of silver per month, and to issue therefor silver certificates that shall be redeemable in silver bullion or in lawful money, at the option of the holder, but the right is reserved to the Socrotary of the Treasury to redeem in bulilon and to give money should ho think best. The theory of tho latter provision la that should the certificate-holder bo able at his option to exchange it for bullion it would cnablo silver speculators to depress the price, buy silver, stimulate the market, sell their silver to tho government, and upon depressing tho market again exchange their certificates for bullion and thus continue indefinitely to make a profit out of tho government in each transaction, Tho Secretary Treasury, having discretionary power, will bo able to proveut this. Tho members of tho Houso cominittoo all agreed to tho foregoing, which Is substantially tho Senate proposition. The following Is tho full text of tho bill as agreed upon: “Section 1. That the Secretary of tho treasury is hereby directed to purchase from time to time silver bullion to tho aggregate amount of 4,500,000 ounces of puro silver in each month, at the market price thereof, not exeooding $1 for 37J \i grains of pure silver and to issue in payment for such purchases of silver bullion treasury notes of tho United States to be prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury In such form and of such denominations, not less than $1 nor more than SI,OOO, as ho may proscribe, and a sum sufficient to carry Into effect tho provisions of this act is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. “Sec. 2. That the treasury notos issued in accordance with tho provisions of this act shall be redeemable on demand in lawful money of the United States at tho treasury of tho United States, or at tho office of any assistant treasurer of the Unitod States, and when so redeemed may bo reissued, but no greater or less amount of such note* shall bo outstanding at any time than tho cost of tho silver bullion then held in the treasury purchased by suen notes. Provided, That upon tho demand of tho holder of any of tho treasury notos horoin provided for, tho Secretary of tho Treasury may in his discretion and under such regulations as he. may prescribe exchango for such notes an amount of silver bullion which shall bo equal in value at tho market price thereof on tho day of exchango to tho amount of such notes. “Sec. 3. That the Socrotary of tho Treasury shall coin such portion of the silver bullion purchased under tho provisions of this act as may bo necessary to provide for tho redemption of the treasury notos herein provided for, and any gain or seigniorage arising from such coinage shall bo accounted for and paid info tho treasury. “Sec. 4. That tho silver bullion purchased under the provisions of this act shall be subject to tho requirements of oxisting law and tho regulations of the mint service governing the methods of determining the amount of puro silver contained, and the amount of charges or deductions, if any, to bo made. “See. 5. That so much of tho act of Feb. 28. 1878, entitled *An act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar and to restore Its legal tender character,’ as requires the monthly purchase and coinage of tho same Into silver dollars of not less than 82,000,000 nor more than $4,000,000 worth of silver bullion, is hereby repealed. “Sec. 6. That this act shall take effect thirty days from and after its passage.” Secretaries Blaine and Windom havo had several consultations on tho subjoct of protection of American Interests In tho Behring sea, but so far ns is kn >wn have not yet decided upon any detinifcj plan of action. Tht re are at prosent however, no indications that the policy of this administration as regards tho seal fisheries will differ on any material point from that of its predecessors. The revenue steamers Bear and Rush are now being fitted out at Sjan Francisco for their annual cruise in the Alaskan waters. The former will start north about May 1 and the latter abont June 1. Tho Bear will carry provisions, etc., for tho men who were left at Point Barrow refuge station last summer. The fish commission steamer Albatross will also soil north from San Francisco about May l, specially charged with the enforcement of the law prohibiting the erection of the dams, barricades, or other obstruction in the rivers of Alaska with tho purpose of preventing tho ascent of the salmon or auadromous species to their spawning-ground. Instructions to the revenue officers have not yet been issued, bnt it Is expected that they will bo ready in a few days. The instructions will probably recognize the same jurisdiction of tho United States over Behring sea as in the past, and will direct a strict compliance with the laws governing the seal and salmon fisheries. It Is expected there will be three war vessels in tho Alaskan territory during the coming season to -assist in the enforcement of the law. One is now at Sitka and the other two are fitting out at San Francisco. The United States ship Alert, now undergoing repairs in San Francisco, may also be ordered to the fleet in Behring sea. TnE New York police have been asked to assist in tho search for Benjamin Newton of Philadelphia, acting assistant superintendent of the Philadelphia t Reading railroad, who disappeared Monday, since which time no trace ot him has been found. He was suffering from overwork. ,